The Authors in Room 13

Mrs Kaye has finally found time to put Room 13's amazing narratives together in a book.  We are enjoying reading all our stories.  We have a sheet at the back to write positive comments on our work.  We hope guests to our class will enjoy our writing too!

Lost and Found Writing

We went to look at the lost property box and sorted through the items. We chose an item from the box and used our imagination to think about the wild adventure it must of had to get into the Lost and Found.  We wrote a plan using a questions template - Who lost it?  When was it lost?  Where was it found? etc
Now we are publishing our stories about the lost property adventures as comics . Cool!

Bye, Bye, Mrs. Lye

The whole school said a sad farewell to our principal Mrs. Lye at assembly on Friday.  Our Kapa Haka group welcomed her into the hall and then sang beautifully for us.  To all the seniors that have practiced so tirelessly, you sounded fantastic.  Tino pai!  Here are some video clips of the event, enjoy.

Topic Presentations

Room 13 has been researching events based around the Olympic games. We are now beginning to publish our work using lap books. They are fun to make! We hope you will like the finished books and learn some facts too.

Olympic Art

Athletes! Room 13 experimented with drawing stick figures showing a variety of movements which involved running, swimming, archery etc. We then used coloured paper and glue to create our athletes. Can you guess the sport?

Let's Re-Cap

Room 13 will be reflecting more on our learning this term. We have several new ideas about how to do this. The first one is a statement/question task using post it notes. A great way of thinking about what you know and a good way of working on our key competency 'thinking'. Ka pai

Narratives!

In Room 13 we are looking at narratives.  We are looking at and discussing the development and relationship of characters.
To do this we read Anthony Browne, Voices in the Park.
The class described the characters and how they all linked with each other and the setting.
We then had to take one of the characters and come up with a short story placing them in another setting.
Some children decided Mum's snobby character could be in a fancy restaurant.  Here is the opening paragraph from one story -

I opened the door and a little bell tinkled from above.  A bit ... rustic for my taste.  My custom-made pitch black high heels softly clicked on the floor.  Gentle, elegant music wafted around the room played by a jazz band in the background.  A young waiter led me to my table which was covered with a table-cloth made of silk.  I looked through a menu with what looked like very expensive paper.  Only the best for this restaurant.